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From independence to the U.S. Constitution [electronic resource] : reconsidering the critical period of American history / edited by Douglas Bradburn and Christopher R. Pearl

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Reconsidering the critical period of American history
Published:
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Physical Description:
viii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:
Bradburn, Douglas, 1972- and Pearl, Christopher R., 1983-
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Contents:
The Constitutional Consequences of Commercial Crisis: The Role of Trade Reconsidered in the Critical Period / Dael A. Norwood -- America's Court: George Washington's Mount Vernon in the Critical Period / Douglas Bradburn -- Abolitionists, Congress, and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Before and after Ratification / Nicholas P. Wood -- Federalism on the Frontier: Secession and Loyalty in the Trans-Appalachian West / Susan Gaunt Stearns -- "Such a Spirit of Innovation": The American Revolution and the Creation of States / Christopher R. Pearl -- Something from Nothing? Currency and Finance in the Critical Period / Hannah Farber -- An Excess of Aristocracy: Democracy and the Fear of Aristocratic Power in the 1780s / Kevin Butterfield -- Epilogue: Turn Down the Volume! / Johann N. Neem.
Summary:
"This volume re-examines the 1780s in American history, a crucial period when the Revolutionary generation worked out new political, economic, and social parameters that came to define the subsequent trajectory of the United States"--
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ISBN:
9780813947419 (hardcover)
9780813947426 (paperback)
9780813947433 (ebook)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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